[mesa-users] [patch] Make sure data directory exists

[Bill Paxton]

Hi,

Okay!  good to understand the source of the problem.
I'll make the patches since now we know they won't be
hiding some other problem.

Thanks,
Bill





On Jan 24, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Rob.Farmer wrote:

> Hi Bill
> After poking around i found the issue (entirely my own making). I'm using git rather than svn as a SCM, (git has the useful ability to "pretend" to be svn/cvs clients so i can be lazy and learn only 1 set of commands).
> Unfortunately, it turns out that it doesn't track empty directories, which is why they where missing from the checkout. Other than these missing directories everything else installed fine
> Patch should still be useful to stop this happening to anyone else regardless of their tools.
> 
> Rob
> ________________________________________
> From: Bill Paxton [paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu]
> Sent: 24 January 2013 02:15
> To: Rob.Farmer
> Cc: mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [mesa-users] [patch] Make sure data directory exists
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> If your checkout and installation of MESA happens properly, there is no need to patch things.
> So I'm wondering if something went wrong in your install.  You might do a fresh checkout to see.
> I'm concerned that if the necessary data directories were missing from your checkout,
> then there are probably other things screwed up too.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Rob.Farmer wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Somehow, (not sure how) i ended up without the {eos,chem,colors,kap}/data directories that are used during building MESA, for dumping the output of the bzip's in.
>> So here is a patch to fix that, it should apply against svn version 4740 with the command
>> 
>> cd $MESA_SRC
>> patch < 0001-Make-sure-tmp-build-directories-are-present.patch
>> 
>> But if it doesn't or you cant see the attachment all it is, is adding
>> 
>> mkdir -p data
>> 
>> to
>> chem/build_data_and_export
>> colors/build_data_and_export
>> eos/build_DTdata_and_export
>> eos/build_PTdata_and_export
>> eos/build_free-eosDT_data_and_export
>> eos/build_free-eosPT_data_and_export
>> eos/build_macdonald_DTdata_and_export
>> eos/build_macdonald_PTdata_and_export
>> kap/build_data_and_export
>> 
>> before the "cd data" command
>> 
>> Using mkdir -p means if people have the directory already present mkdir won't throw an error.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Rob
>> 
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